BitTorrent Has Cancer...

Something similar will replace it, eventually. I'll use whatever that may be.

Relax, fanboys, there will always be a pecking order to know who's cool, like.


-doobs :dabs:
 
Interface my ass. Bittorrent is free for the average user. Usenet is not.
That's most of it.




Unstable1 said:
The OP has cancer.
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The bad aids, actually. It was all a tragic accident; involving turkey basters, a slightly used pickle, male pregnancy, and an insatiable English lad; a natural born pervert.



-doobs
 
brotherdoobie said:
Interface my ass. Bittorrent is free for the average user. Usenet is not.
That's most of it.






The bad aids, actually. It was all a tragic accident; involving turkey basters, a slightly used pickle, male pregnancy, and an insatiable English lad; a natural born pervert.



-doobs
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Thx doobs...I needed that. Here's to ya!

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brotherdoobie said:
Something similar will replace it, eventually. I'll use whatever that may be.
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Well that's pretty obvious look at the previous popular d/l methods

-warez sites
-napster
-kazza
-dc++ (although i have recently understood this is still pretty popular)
-torrent/rapidshare

it's the way piracy works once the RIAA cracks down on one method a new method pops up to compensate for it

The only methods that have managed to survive for a long period of time are
-Mirc
-Ftp/ topsites, dumps (and they change the specific ftp very frequently )
 
Invite trading. There's a host of other reasons, but I can't be bothered. Invite trading is the tumor (the rest are just symptoms of the root disease).


-doobs
 
BitTorrent is free for the average user. Usenet is not.
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The average seedbox runs $40 a month.
An unlimited Usenet account is half that, or less.

The 'cancer' is not invites, its the source of them... private trackers.
Usenet Access is a 'business' because of the way it is structured. No-one could move 5 terabyte of data, every day, and offer a year of retention, without incurring expenses.

Your right in that bittorrent was 'suspose' to be free... but someone found a way to make a buck, and the drama began.
 
Blaming whatever problems you see on invite trading. How profound.

But your argument misses a step. Invites would not be traded if they had no value. If sites were more open, it would greatly reduce the value of invites.

Edit: I think seedboxes are the worst thing that ever happened to bt. And I've drifted towards usenet (back and forth really) and wish I could just walk away from bt but seeding is such a joy.
 
Wwwildthing said:
The average seedbox runs $40 a month.
An unlimited Usenet account is half that, or less.

The 'cancer' is not invites, its the source of them... private trackers.
Usenet Access is a 'business' because of the way it is structured. No-one could move 5 terabyte of data, every day, and offer a year of retention, without incurring expenses.

Your right in that bittorrent was 'suspose' to be free... but someone found a way to make a buck, and the drama began.
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i have not spent money on bittorent and am not planning to spend money on it. I think that who ever pays money for a seedbox is a damn fool just seed the torrent back no need to have 200 gb buffers 1.1 ratio is more then enough to keep d/l what you want
 
there's nothing wrong with seedboxes. the wrong thing - is how most trackers don't react well to their existance or react the strange way. the stimulation system usually works the wrong way. the big problem of bt is it's easy to being hit. one server, couple of guys and the tracker is gone. and all the uploaders work lost. i can see it as a big problem that it requires a lot of work to make a description for a torrent and this information is located separately from torrent contents and can be easily lost. generally sharing process should be as easy as at DC. the real deal will begin when sharing won't be linked to a protocol and p2p will be backed with server uploads, like with encrypted files at MU, newsgroups, whatever. even p2p should migrate to the point where locally will be stored random encrypted data without any complete releases and it will be spreaded around the future networks according to speeds, storage capacity etc. of each member with backups etc.. i remember fidonet times - it was a real hydra. from what i don't see from the side, scene operates the same way.. so there are ways of evolution, but as long as there's not enough pressure from authorities, this evolution won't happend.

btw oh hey whatman, nice interview, hb what.cd :)
 
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